Việt Linh

Việt Linh was born in Saigon in 1952, the daughter of the screenwriter Nguyễn Việt Tân, a native of Bến Tre. In 1969, at seventeen, she left school to join in the maquis her father, who served at the Giải Phóng studio of the Southern propaganda bureau, and it was there that she came to the profession from 1971. When peace returned, she finished her schooling in the evenings in Saigon, was sent to the Soviet Union in 1980 and graduated with distinction from the Moscow film institute. A stroke kept her off film sets from 2005; since then she has founded a theatre stage and divides her life between Paris and Ho Chi Minh City.

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• CinemaGánh xiếc rongViệt Linh · 1988Cinema